Quick Hits — December 9, 2011
- The Rise of the Geek Lobby: Can Google, Facebook, tech wonks, and Web activists kill the Stop Online Piracy Act? Apparently, yes: Digital mutiny sinks piracy bill.
- Perry Looks to Lasso Cain Supporters with Facebook Ads, while Newt Gingrich’s Google Ad Buy Jumps the Cain Train.
- Elizabeth Warren: Facebook (Ad) Poster Child.
- “Time Shifting” Reinvents 2012 Voter Campaign Message Consumption. Inside the Tivo Effect, and more.
- Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party: How They Appear on the Web, via K Street Cafe. C.f. Occupy’s cool poster art, via the Post.
- Is Your Cell Phone Spying on You?
- Bots flood Twitter with noise to drown out anti-Kremlin tweets, as Pro-Kremlin Forces Don’t Silence Dissent, They Drown It Out.
- Russia bloggers hail success of ‘Facebook rally’, and Profile: (Jailed) Russian blogger Alexei Navalny.
- Obama’s Golfing Habit Spurs New Romney Fundraising Microsite, which doesn’t hold up well to scrutiny.
- Somali Terrorists Join Twitter #Propaganda.
- SMS vs. the King: Thailand’s Expanding Crackdown on Free Speech and Lese Majeste.
- Can the Web Increase Black and Latino Political Participation?
- Rick Perry’s Ad Inspires Internet Jokesters. Perry campaign finally of some value to society.
- CATS 1, KIDS 0. PayPal’s epic holiday fail, and an online victory!
- Staffers Gone Wild: Dem Rep’s Staff Tweet About Drinking on the Job, promptly lose them.
- Republicans vs. Democrats TV survey results: Lefties want comedy, right wingers like work.
- Investigation and Amplification: On Clay Shirky’s Latest Future-of-News Missive.
- Why 2011 Will Be Defined by Social Media Democracy.
- On the value of database-targeted direct (snail) mail.
- A couple of overview articles: Online Political Advertising Gaining Momentum, with the Web an increasing tool to link campaigns, voters (the last with a quote from Epol contributor Chris Talbot). C.f. 4 ways technology will impact politics in 2012.
- Campaigns harness social media graphs for cash.
- Obama’s New, Stretchy, Mobile-Friendly Site Redesign.
- Still the Question is Debated: Are Social Media Campaigns Worthwhile? C.f. Is online activism effective? 5 ways to ask (and answer) the question.
- How to deal with haters on your Facebook page.
- Social Media for Social Good: 3 Secrets to Raising Big Bucks Online.
- Social Media: Just One Big Tidal Wave?
- Mapping the French Political Blogosphere.
- Facebook, Google tell India they won’t screen for derogatory content.
- Re-examining the non-profit homepage slider.
- Introducing the Subscribe Button for Websites, via Derek Pangallo.
- Twitter and the Campaign: How the Discussion on Twitter Varies from Blogs and News Coverage And Ron Paul’s Twitter Triumph. Via @edgery.
- Best description of NewsMax ever.
- Are the Muppets Communists? The twitterverse explores — and explodes.
- 2011′s Top Hashtags Are Perfect Snapshot of Internet’s Power, Inanity.
- Blackboards in porn! A scholarly dissection of the lessons presented on porn-film classroom blackboards. C.f. the all-important Rule 34.
- And finally: Authorities say Calif couple released from hospital after attack by naked, 300-lb bodybuilder.
– cpd
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